Biography:
John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945 in Berkeley, California, USA) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and as a solo recording artist.
John Fogerty began a solo career, originally under the name The Blue Ridge Rangers for his 1973 LP debut. Fogerty played all of the instruments on covers of others' country music hits, such as "Jambalaya" (which was a Top 40 hit).
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Other songs:
- Almost Saturday Night
- Bad Moon Rising
- Rambunctious Boy
- Wholl Stop The Rain
- A Hundred And Ten In The Shade
- Back Home Again
- Between The Lines
- Big Train To Memphis
- Blue Moon Nights
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
- Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
- Bring It Down To Jelly Roll
- Broken Down Cowboy
- California Blues
- Centerfield
- Centrefield
- Comin Down The Road
- Creedence Song
- Cross Tie Walker
- Deja Vu All Over Again
- Dont You Wish It Was True
- Dream Song
- Fallin Fallin Fallin
- Fortunate Son
- Gunslinger
- Haunted House
- Have Thine Own Way Lord
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain
- Headlines
- Hearts Of Stone
- Heavens Just A Sin Away
- Henrietta
- Hot Rod Heart
- I Aint Never
- I Cant Help Myself
- I Cant Take It No More
- I Dont Care
- I Saw It On Tv
- I Will Walk With You
- Ill Be There
- It Aint Right
- Jambalaya On The Bayou
- Joy Of My Life
- Knockin On Your Door
- Lodi
- Lonely Teardrops
- Longshot
- Looking Out My Back Door
- Moody River
- My Toot Toot
- Mystic Highway
- Natural Thing
- Never Ending Song Of Love
- Paradise
- Please Help Me Im Falling
- Premonition
- Proud Mary
- Rhubarb Pie
- River Is Waiting
- Rock And Roll Girls
- Rockin All Over The World
- Sail Away
- Sea Cruise
- Searchlight
- She Thinks I Still Care
- Somewhere Listening For My Name
- Southern Streamline
- Sugar
- Summer Of Love
- Sweet Hitch
- Telephone
- The Old Man Down The Road
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Travelin Band
- Travelin High
- Vanz Kant Danz
- Walking In A Hurricane
- When Will I Be Loved
- Where The River Flows
- Workin On A Building
- You Rascal You
- Youre The Reason
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My first tab. I derived this from some live videos of John Fogerty playing this tune
and these are the chords he seems to be using. It's notably different from the original
by John Prine.
Intro: G
G C G
When I was a child my family would travel
D G
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
C G
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
D G
So many times that my memories are worn
Chorus:
G C G
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D G
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
C G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D G
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Chorus
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
Chorus
(Muted Strings)
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus
and these are the chords he seems to be using. It's notably different from the original
by John Prine.
Intro: G
G C G
When I was a child my family would travel
D G
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
C G
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
D G
So many times that my memories are worn
Chorus:
G C G
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D G
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
C G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D G
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Chorus
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
Chorus
(Muted Strings)
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus
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